Posts tagged The Mall
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DDOT selects Capital Bikeshare locations
DDOT has announced a preliminary set of locations for its 100 Capital Bikeshare stations (via TheWashCycle): Keep reading…
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How would you improve the Washington Monument area?
In comparison to the relative clutter of some other areas of the National Mall and adjacent parks, the Washington Monument grounds have the opposite problem: they’re a desolate wasteland of grass without shade, amenities, or interesting programming. That wasn’t the original plan. Early concepts for the Washington Monument included a colonnade surrounding… Keep reading…
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Where should the Latino museum go?
Congress has declared the National Mall a “completed work of civic art” and declared that future museums and memorials should go on sites outside the Mall, but that hasn’t stopped them from making exception after exception. Now, the planned National Museum of the American Latino wants to be on the Mall, too, and looks likely to get it. After all, the National… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Moving earth
Politically in PG; And…; Did you feel it?; The line on Purple; An urban Wal-Mart?; Obama vs. sprawl; Oregon to bag the bags?. Keep reading…
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National Park Service defines “important vistas”
The National Park Service has released its new Master Plan for the National Mall. I have only briefly skimmed it so far, but one interesting page deals with the visual vistas NPS deems important. Check out this map: The map’s blue lines are “vistas [that] are identified as contributing features of the L’Enfant Plan of the City of Washington, D.C.,”… Keep reading…
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“Get people out of the road” not the right response
After more than a half-century of designing public spaces around automobiles, many residents, journalists, and public officials instinctively react to conflicts over space between pedestrians and drivers assuming that the right answer is to get all the people out of the way of the cars. That “windshield perspective” needs to change. Matthias reported from… Keep reading…
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Brunch links: Saved
The word on texting; Plannin’ for McMillan; “Most important” new buildings; Auto-centrism in New York development; Auto-centrism in Brooklyn notables; Healthier in the Charm City; How transit mode share has changed; We need bicycle infrastructure. Keep reading…
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Family fun in the Flickr pool
Thanks to everyone who joined the Greater and Lesser Washington Flickr pool and submitted photos! Here are a few of our favorites this week. Keep reading…